Welt guide



C. C. BLAKE.

WELT GUIDE- APPLICATION FILED NOV-24.1915. RENEWED JUNE 2,1921.

Patented. Jan. 10, 1922.,

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"r no e rit m. lent l d s llloLo CHARLES C. BLAKE, OE BROGKLINE, TEASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR- TO C. C. BLAKE, TNCORPGEATEL, 0? BOSTON, IJIASSACHUSETTS, A CGRPORATIGN OF NET/V YORK.

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Qriginal application filed August 12 1913, Serial No. 785,142. Divided and this application filed Novem- 1915, .erial No. 63,327. Renewed June 2, 1821. Serial No. 474,524.

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Be it lrnown that T, Ci-iAnLns C. BLAKE, a citizen of the Unitec States residing at Broolrline in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Welt Guides, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to welt guides which are used in the manufacture of hose to guide and support the welt during ie inseam sewing operation.

Tn the welt shoe devised by me the welt is slit longitudinally along one edge face in order to form base in the interior of the west to hold the inseam stitches.

The object of the present invention is to produce a welt guide which will properly hold he welt hereinbefore referred to during the inseam sewing or fastening operao the accomplishment of his object the sutures of the resent invention consist in certain devices, combinations and arrangements or parts fully set forth hereinafter, the advantages of which will be readily understood by those skilled in the The various features of the present invention will be reacil v und-rstood from an inspection of the accompanying drawings illitstrating the best form of the invention at present known to the inventor, in which.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the welt guide and associated parts, and

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the welt guide. u The machine illustrated in the drawings comprises a straight eye-pointed needle 1, an awl 2, a 3. a pair of gages or feet 4:, a looper 5 and a k ife or gouge 6. The parts above briefly referred to are constructed and arranged in the same manner and operated bv the same mechanism as the corresponding parts of the machine disclosed in apphcation for Letters Patent of the United States led by me August 16, 1913. Serial No. of which the present application is a division.

Tlhe welt T to be sewn to the lasted shoe is provided with a ongitudinal slit 8 along Specification of Letters Patent.

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welt guide 11 embodying the features of the present invention. The welt guide 11 is provided with a j-shaped nose 12 which engages the base of the slit 8 and the interior faces of the upper and lower flaps. The welt guide 11 is provided with a foot 13 which engages the outside face of the upper flap 9. A second foot 14 on the welt guide engages the outside face of the lower flap 10. The foot 1% is also provided with a face 15 which extends beyond the flap and engages the body portion of the welt to support it and prevent its buckling. The foot 13 is bifurcated 2) to permit the material of the weltto hump beneath the foot during the passage of the tools through the work. The needle and awl operate through an opening 16, formed in the welt guide, which is arranged substantially in the vertical plane of the feet 13 and 1% (Fig. 2).

The welt guide 11 depends from a slide 1'? which is arranged to slide beneath a cover plate 18 upon the top of a slide 19 for the awl 2. The welt guide is held in position against the welt by a spring 20 one end of which is secured to a pin 21 on the awl and needle carrier and the other end of which is secured to a pin 22 on the slide 17. With this construction the welt slit longitudinally along one edge is held properly in position for the operation of the sewing tools.

It will be apparent to those skilled in this art and with the general objects of the present invention in View, that changes may be made in the details of structure, the describeu and illustrated embodiment thereof being intended as an exploitation of its underlying essentials the features whereof will be definitely stated in their true scope in the claims hereto appended.

What is claimed as new, is

l. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose engage the base of the slit and both of the interior faces of the flaps, all parts of the guide being out of contact with the unslit edge of the welt, substantially as described.

2. A guide for guiding a wel slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit and both of the interior faces of the flaps, and a foot arranged to engage the outside face of the upper flap, all parts of the guide being out of contact with the unslit edge of the welt, substantially as described.

3. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit and both of the interior faces of the flaps, and a foot arranged to engage the outside face of the bottom flap, all parts of the guide being out of contact with the unslit edge of the welt, substantially as described.

1. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit and both of the interior faces of the flaps, and a foot arranged to engage the outside face of the bottom flap, said foot having an additional face arranged to engage the body portion of the welt, all parts of the guide being out of contact with the unslit edge of the welt, substantially as described.

5. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit and both of the interior faces of the flaps, and a pair of feet arranged to engage the top and bottom faces of the upper and lower flaps, respectively, substantially as described.

6. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit and both of the interiorfaces of the flaps, and a bifurcated foot arranged to engage the outside face or the upper flap, substantially as described.

7. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose, arranged to engage in the slit, having an opening therein for the passage of a tool thercthrough, substantially as described.

8. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose, arranged to engage in the slit, having an opening therein for the passage of a tool therethrough; and a foot arranged to engage the outside face of the upper flap in substantially the vertical plane of the open ing, substantially as described.

9. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consistlng of a nose arranged to engage in the slit, having an opening therein for the passage of a tool therethrough; and a foot arranged to engage the outside face of the lower flap in substantially the vertical plane of the opening, substantially as described.

10. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose, arranged to engage in the slit, having an opening therein for the passage of a tool therethrough; and a pair of feet arranged to engage the top and bottom faces of the upper and lower flaps, respectively, in substantially the vertical plane of the opening, substantially as described.

11. A welt guide comprising a passage for the welt, and a separate passage for a tool through the guide opening into the first passage and arranged in a plane intersecting the guided welt intermediate the top and bottom faces thereof. 7

12. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge comprising a nose arranged to engage the base of the slit provided with a passage for a tool therethrough.

18. A guide for guiding a welt slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of a nose arranged to engage in the slit in the welt and co-operating guiding surfaces to engage the flaps of the slit in the welt, said guide leaving the unslit edge of the welt free.

1A. A guide for guiding a weit slit longitudinally along one edge consisting of co- 0 aeratin uidin surfaces constructed to b O b engage the internal and external faces" of the slit in the welt, and arranged out of contact with the unslit edge of the welt.

CHARLES C. BLAKE. 

